text: In the 1970s, families would sit down together every Saturday to watch The Carol Burnett Show. The first five seasons of the legendary variety show are now out on DVD. We've invited Burnett to play a game called "Rowwwr!" Burnett is married to a man just a wee bit younger than she is, so we're going to ask her three questions about cougars (the large cats, of course). PETER SAGAL, HOST:  And now the game where we ask somebody wonderful about something silly. Whole families do not gather around the TV anymore - everybody's got their own screen - but they used to, at least in my house. Every Saturday during the 1970s, my family and millions of others would sit down together to watch "The Carol Burnett Show," the greatest variety show hosted by one of the greatest comedians we've ever had. The first five seasons of "The Carol Burnett Show" are finally out on DVD. And we are thrilled to be joined by the woman herself. Carol Burnett, welcome to WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME. CAROL BURNETT: Thank you, Peter. SAGAL: Well, I'm not - I, like so many other people, grew up watching you. You were a huge part of my childhood and my life. And that's true of so many people. So do people meet you and freak out, like I'm about to? BURNETT: (Laughter) No, but you know what's really neat is because of YouTube and also, you know, that our DVDs have been released, I'm getting fan mail from 9-year-olds... SAGAL: Really? BURNETT: ...Ten-year-olds, teenagers... And I go around the country and I do Q and A's, questions and answers like I used to at the beginning of the show. And not too long ago, I was in Texas and this little boy in the second row raised his hand. He had a question. I said, hi. I said, but first, how old are you? And he said 9. And I said (laughter) and you know who I am? And he said, surprisingly, yes. (LAUGHTER) AMY DICKINSON: Amazing. SAGAL: So I was watching your show and - the earliest episodes - and there was just, in that '60s way, just this slightly risque - like, there's a joke when you're doing your family sketch with Harvey playing your husband where you're so excited 'cause you have the evening to yourselves and you're going to do something. And he reads the paper. BURNETT: Right. SAGAL: So did you ever try to do something they wouldn't let you do? BURNETT: No, actually we were really - we didn't get censored. And the suits - by that I mean, you know, the vice president of the CBS, executives and so forth - they never bothered us. They - we would do our run-through and we'd have the censor there - he was terrific. His name was Charlie Petitjean and he was - he was just - we loved him and he loved us. And we never gave him any grief. But there was one time (laughter) we were doing a sketch where I was a nudist. And I was standing behind a fence that said keep out and my shoulders were bare and you could see my legs, and I had on high-top sneakers. And Harvey was interviewing me a la Edward R. Murrow, OK? And so we're just doing jokes, you know, it was just jokes. And (laughter) Harvey - one of the jokes was Harvey said, so, what do you nudists do for recreation? And I said, well we have dances every Saturday night. And his line was, well, how do you nudists dance? And my line was, very carefully. (LAUGHTER) BURNETT: Well, Charlie Petitjean thought that was fine but the higher-ups, you know, the program practice's - his boss said, oh, it's too risque. I mean, you got to change that. I mean, please. Anyway, so we had to go back to the drawing board. So this is what we came up with and CBS bought it. We said - he said, how do you nudists dance? And I said, cheek to cheek. (LAUGHTER) SAGAL: It was a classier time. So... BURNETT: That's what we wanted in the first place but we never thought they'd buy it. DICKINSON: Weird. SAGAL: I saw an interview once, I want to establish this, in which somebody asked you for the secret to success and happiness at a certain age, and you said the secret is to marry a much younger man. BURNETT: (Laughter) Yeah. SAGAL: And that's worked out for you. BURNETT: It certainly has. SAGAL: Yeah, keeps you on your toes. BURNETT: Yeah, keeps him on his toes, too. SAGAL: Yeah, do you ever - I can imagine. Do you ever pat him on the head and say, oh, you wouldn't understand. You're too young. BURNETT: No, not at all. That's why we're together. SAGAL: Oh, good. Well, Carol, we read that Lucille Ball was a mentor of yours early on. What advice did she give you? BURNETT: She was 22 years older than I, so she called me kid, OK? And so one time she was on my show and we were having dinner before the orchestra rehearsal on Thursday night at the farmers market. She was knocking back a couple of whiskey sours. And she said, you know, kid, it's really great that you have Joe, who - I was married to Joe Hamilton who was our producer. She said, it's great you have Joe to run interference and all. She said, when I was married to the Cuban... (LAUGHTER) BURNETT: She said, you know, Desi did everything.